Lionsgate imagines Wii movie store 'will launch worldwide soon'

I can watch SD, but will take the HD option any time it is available. HD is just far and away better.

Archigamer, you know people used to live without plumbing and electricity right? So clearly, if someone tried to sell you a house without plumbing or electricity you wouldn't count it against the house because people used to live that way no problem?

Standards change. What self-respecting HDTV owner is going to download a movie in SD when there are plenty of HD alternatives out there?

This is great for people with just SDTV's though, which is a lot of Wii owners.

Vcize, no disrespect towards you, but be honest with yourself, that whole "Wii owners only have SDTVs" is a bull-crap stereotype. Yes, a big portion of the "Wii audience" are idiotic people who don't even know what HD is, but dude, I'm pretty sure that a lot of Wii owners have HDTVs.

Things change of course, lifestyles, hygiene, common knowledge, etc., and arguing over a house with no plumbing is a valid argument as we come to expect better hygienic conditions in our lives, as it betters our overall life, both physically and metaphorically in some ways.

But arguing about a TV or game console not having HD capabilities and dismissing the fact that for the past decades we have lived perfectly fine with SD, is well, to include myself in this, petty. When does HD better anything personally, or when does SD hurt you?

Standards change, but demanding it is and dismissing the past is well idiotic.

Now more on topic, I find hard to believe people have problems with SD as it has been a standard almost forever. HD has only been around for what five years(or more, not sure), and we already forgot about SD?

So archi, to stick with just TV and movies then, if the Wii's download service was only available in black and white, would that matter to you?

@Shadowbender

All I said was that a lot of Wii owners don't have HDTVs, which is less than you said yourself. No need to jump down my throat there if you're not jumping down your own throat.

I'm not one to lie, but it would bother me if say a modern movie was displayed in only black-and-white, though it would be interesting to see such a thing.

But would it bother me to the point were I say idiotic things as "they hurt my eyes"? That's were my argument lies; its ok to dislike SD and prefer HD, but its kind petty and stupid to say things as what we have seen over the few years.

"But would it bother me to the point were I say idiotic things as "they hurt my eyes"? "

Have you actually seen SD content on large HDTVs? It's not the most pleasant thing to look at. This is for a couple of reasons. One, the screen being huge really makes the lack of detail become more apparent. And, two, because today's TV technologies have native resolutions. LCD, plasma, DLP, etc... have a set number of pixels that can't be changed. So when you send a low res signal to the display it has to scale it up to match its native resolution. Some TVs have better scalers than others, but more often than not this process results a slightly blurry looking picture and maybe a few other scaling artifacts thrown in. This is quite a bit different than just a few years ago when even many HDTVs were still using CRT technology. CRTs don't have native resolutions and so they could display the incoming signal at the signal's resolution rather than trying to match their own capabilities. So, no, it's not the same as it used to be.

I still get TV as an SD feed and on my HDTV. It looks fine from across the room. I'm past the age of 4 where I sit with my face inches from a TV screen, so it is fine for me. It may just be the area I live, but the majority of people still have SD tvs and will until they need to change tv. I've only had a HDTV now for 2 months, and don't see any reason to be snobby over those who have SD.

As for complaining if things were black and white. Why?

Sin City was black and white, and it was watchable.

Clerks was filmed with a low budget and it was black and white, and a great movie.

Many older films are black and white and some are still as great as they were back then.

Cinemas still use film reels where the image is covered in small speckles where there has been artefacts on the reel, yet people still go there and don't complain.

Netflix > Blockbuster

And PPV/On-Demand can quickly add up to more than Netflix depending on how many movies you like to rent.

QFT. I watched Sunshine on my Wii the other day on a HDTV and it was great.